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Education 2.0: How Tech Is Revolutionizing Your Kid’s Classroom

If only educators had found some way to work computer games into teaching when I was in grade school, I might have managed to pay more attention in those fraction and early algebra lessons.

These days, the dream of using kid-friendly technology, such as games, to help teach children in the classroom is slowly becoming a reality. Take, for example, North Kenwood-Oakland school on the South Side of Chicago, where 5- and 6-year-olds are busy playing Reading Eggs, a computer game developed to help kids learn to read and write.

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As the director of the school noted, the use of computer games in the classroom helps students learn faster, and the technology allows teachers “to spend more time teaching and less time marking written work and leading pupils through dull drills of words and numbers,” The Economist reported.

An additional added benefit is the ability to accurately keep track of a child’s performance record through the computer system.

Of course many barriers still stand in the way of extending the use of technology for teaching in the classrooms. For starters – there’s a lot of red tape. Extensive rules and regulations govern America’s 13,000 school districts, making it difficult for quick, sweeping reform here, no matter what that reform or innovation might be.
Secondly, it’s expensive, and with many schools already getting the squeeze when it comes to financing, few are willing to dish out their limited funds on new programs that haven’t yet extensively proven their worth.

Who can resist technology in the classroom? I can because the taxes will go through the roof and the results will be the same. You know the old phrase, ‘follow the money’ and you wil know who is pushing this agenda.
I am afraid that there is no easy way to learn and new technology is promising just that. Parents are hoping for that magic pill, the anti-depressant of learning. Technology is not it. Rather, it is the same as it has been for couple of thousand years. It is called memorize, think, read, etc. It is called be attentive, be disciplined.
Our children have lost the art of how to memorize. Rather, they have been told that they don’t need to because information is at their finger tips. That is wrong. As a result, they do not have the basic tools. I can assure you that private schools, those for the wealthy, teach the basics and one must memorize.
It is interesting to note that the executives of the major computer companies in Silicon Valley make sure that their children stay away from technology. Google it! That should tell you everything.

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